You could always uninstall the applications you are not using. Unfortunately Mint, like Ubuntu embeds smb/cifs into their file system as the default method of sharing folders, in my mind an unnecessary complication within a Linux desktop, unless I actually want to connect to and share windows files rather than just drop them into the cloud or otherwise connect to them via a usb devicehttp://www.makeuseof.com/tag/sugarsync- ... ge-titans/